MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) - Tartans beginning with 'K' and in the spirit of

and in the spirit of the times

Sandy MacPhie

and enclosed a specimen

This is a modern sett

Further research by Alasdair 'MacInnes' Campbell of Fort William has identified John MacInnes of Onich

MACLEOD OF LEWIS DRESS (WEATHERED) - Tartans beginning with 'K' and in the spirit ofAlso known as MacLeod Dress and sometimes jokingly referred to as 'Loud MacLeod' but Sir Thomas Dick Lauder obviously liked it . . . in a letter to Sir Walter Scott in 1829 he wrote, 'MacLeod has got a sketch of this splendid tartan, three black stryps upon ain yellow fylde.' Apparently MacLeod was a special friend of the Hays Stuarts Sobieskis and one of the brothers gave him the sketch many years before the Vestiarium Scoticum was published. Robert